# TweetAPI - Third-Party Twitter/X Data API

TweetAPI is an independent third-party API for public Twitter/X data. It is built
for developers, researchers, startups, agencies, and analytics teams that need
API access to public social data without an X developer account approval flow.

TweetAPI is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by X Corp.

## Canonical Public Pages

- Website: https://tweetapi.com
- Pricing: https://tweetapi.com/pricing
- Documentation: https://tweetapi.com/docs/getting-started/overview
- AI-ready API docs: https://tweetapi.com/ai-docs-v2.txt
- Support: https://t.me/tweetapi

## Public Pricing

| Plan  |      Price |                 Requests |          Rate Limit | Notes                   |
| ----- | ---------: | -----------------------: | ------------------: | ----------------------- |
| Free  |         $0 |    100 one-time requests |  10 requests/minute | No credit card required |
| Pro   |  $17/month |   100,000 requests/month |  60 requests/minute | Paid public plan        |
| Ultra |  $57/month |   500,000 requests/month | 120 requests/minute | Paid public plan        |
| Mega  | $197/month | 2,000,000 requests/month | 180 requests/minute | Highest public plan     |

Public paid plans include access to all public endpoint categories. Custom or
private plans may exist for specific customers, but the table above is the
default public pricing.

## Payment Methods

- Credit and debit cards through Stripe. Card subscriptions auto-renew.
- Cryptocurrency through NOWPayments. Crypto subscriptions use manual renewal.

## API Access

- Base API URL: https://api.tweetapi.com/tw-v2
- Authentication: `X-API-Key` request header
- Response format: JSON
- Pagination: cursor-based on endpoints that return paginated collections
- Rate-limit information is returned through response headers

## Endpoint Categories

TweetAPI documentation includes endpoints for:

- User profiles and account metadata
- Tweets/posts, tweet details, replies, quotes, retweets, and timelines
- Search and explore workflows
- Followers, following, verified followers, and relationship checks
- Lists and list membership
- Communities and community timelines
- Spaces metadata and Space audio stream URLs
- Posting, replies, quotes, deletes, likes, bookmarks, follows, and retweets
- Encrypted X Chat and legacy DM workflows where authorization is required

## SDKs and Examples

- Maintained SDKs are documented for Python and Node.js / TypeScript.
- Public endpoint docs include cURL, JavaScript, and Python examples.
- Developers can also call the REST API directly from other languages.

## Trial and Dashboard

- New users can start with 100 free trial requests.
- The customer dashboard supports API key management, subscription status,
  billing, usage monitoring, and documentation access.

## Responsible Use

- TweetAPI is intended for legitimate research, analytics, monitoring, business
  intelligence, and developer workflows.
- Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws, platform policies,
  privacy requirements, and TweetAPI terms.

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